The CDCJ oversees the Council of Europe’s work in the field of public and private law and advises the Committee of Ministers.

Focus 2022-2025

• Protection of the profession of lawyer; the rights and the best interests of the child in parental separation and in care proceedings; artificial intelligence and administrative law; preventing and resolving disputes related to child relocation ; administrative detention of migrants; child-sensitive procedures in administrative and migration law in connection with statelessness; rights of people conceived by donor to know their origins; legal aid and representation; access to justice for vulnerable people, mainstreaming gender in public and private law reform processes.; judicial independence and impartiality.

Civil society involvement 

• Participant: Conference of INGOs (CINGO)
• Observers
• Consultation with civil society, either through direct participation in meetings, through dedicated hearings in writing.

The Council of Europe develops public international law, international criminal justice and other topical issues by assisting member and observer states and international organisations in areas such as immunities, reservations and declarations to international treaties, implementation of international sanctions and respect for human rights, peaceful settlement of disputes including those of a private character, to which an international organisation is a party.